No. TITLE. Page. 4 Concurrent Resolution relative to defalcation of late State Treasurer. 5 Concurrent Résolution relative to distribution of printed bills.. 6 Concurrent Resolution relative to defalcation of late State Treasurer.. 9 Concurrent Resolution relative to furniture for State Orphans' Home...... 10 Concurrent Resolution relative to fuel for Senate and Assembly.... 13 Concurrent Resolution relative to printing Rules and Joint Rules. 14 Concurrent Resolution relative to printing report of Surveyor-General..... 178 15 Concurrent Resolution granting leave of absence to N. H. Westfall.... 16 Concurrent Resolution granting leave of absence to John Kane.. 25 Joint Memorial and Concurrent Resolution relative to the United States Gov- ernment providing for the establishment of Reduction Works.. Concurrent Resolution relative to changing certain moneys from the General CONSTITUTION. PRELIMINARY ACTION. WHEREAS, the Act of Congress, approved March twenty-first, Preamble. A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, "To Enable the People of the Territory of Nevada to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States," requires that the members of the Convention for framing said Constitution shall, after organization, on behalf of the people of said Territory, adopt the Constitution of the United States; therefore, be it ed States Resolved, That the members of this Convention, elected by the Constituauthority of the aforesaid Enabling Act of Congress, assembled tion of Unitin Carson City, the Capital of said Territory of Nevada, and im- adopted. mediately subsequent to its organization, do adopt, on behalf the people of said Territory, the Constitution of the United States. ORDINANCE. In obedience to the requirements of an Act of the Congress of Ordinance. the United States, approved March twenty-first, A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to enable the people of Nevada to form a Constitution and State Government, this Convention, elected and convened in obedience to said Enabling Act, do ordain as follows-and this ordinance shall be irrevocable, without the consent of the United States and the people of the State of Nevada: First. That there shall be in this State neither slavery nor Slavery involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment for crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Second. That perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be Religious secured, and no inhabitant of said State shall ever be molested, stolerated. sentiment |